The Board has granted service connection for capsulitis, left foot and ankle, to include as secondary to the Veteran's service-connected right knee disability. The issue of an initial rating in excess of 10 percent for degenerative joint disease, right knee, remains pending.
The deciding factor: The medical evidence supports a finding that the Veteran's service-connected right knee disability caused his current left foot and ankle capsulitis.
- Claimed conditions
- Degenerative Joint Disease (Right Knee), Capsulitis (Left Foot and Ankle)
- How they argued it
- Not specified
- Exposure basis
- None
- Rating assigned
- None in this decision
- Decision date
- June 16, 2010
- Citation
- 1022355
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What this means for you
A grant means the Board agreed the veteran was entitled to the benefit. Decisions like this show the kind of evidence and arguments that tend to succeed for claims like it.
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